Quotes on love

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Martin Amis

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Eleanor Catton

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

Charlotte Brontë

And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority."

"She is my priority!" Will shouted.

Cassandra Clare

I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

Paulo Coelho

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Jodi Picoult

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Paulo Coelho

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

William Goldman

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

Vladimir Nabokov

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

Sarah Dessen

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Criss Jami

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Charlotte Brontë

Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.